There are no undefeated teams in the NFL.
Fans had to go to great lengths to see perfect Dolphins in 1972
Through the 1972 season, every NFL game was blacked out in its home market, sold out or not. That included the adventures of the perfect 17-0 Dolphins, and created something of a perfect storm in terms of feeding the public appetite for football.
What resulted was a cottage industry of blackout-busting locations, each of them designed to beat the system on behalf of customers who didn’t have one of the 80,000 seats at the old Orange Bowl.
It was the same all over the country, with New York Giants fans driving to Connecticut to see their team, Chicago Bears fans driving to South Bend, Ind., to see theirs, and so forth.
